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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > The -B and -T file test operators don't really work well for non-ASCII text > files, except perhaps under 'use locale' How does the old functionality and the proposed new functionality compare to the binary detection done by file(1), grep(1) and a other standard *nix utilities that also do binary detection? Perhaps there's others that do that I'm forgetting, but this seems like a problem that's been solved before by multiple independent implementations. I've never used these operators myself, but I can imagine that one of the common usecases for them is as a heuristic to find files to pass to those other commands, what are they commonly used for?Thread Previous | Thread Next